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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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History is a great dust heap.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
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